BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

mercyless · 3 Oct 2011 at 23:08

lol donkeyfumbler

I'm having poor wireless speeds and drop outs compared to previous isp BE box, from some reading it has been suggested to change the router, what router would you guys recommend?

cp88 · 3 Oct 2011 at 23:30

The WiFi on the Home-hub is terrible, any Netgear cable router would be sweet i'd imagine.

DragonQ · 3 Oct 2011 at 23:51

I have a cable router that has much better WiFi than the Home Hub but has no gigabit ports at all. So if I wanted to use it, I'd need FOUR boxes just to get the network set up optimally (VDSL box -> Home Hub 3 -> Gigabit switch + Netgear router). I'd rather run a cable instead to avoid the bad WiFi.

Phemo · 4 Oct 2011 at 00:01

DragonQ said:
I have a cable router that has much better WiFi than the Home Hub but has no gigabit ports at all. So if I wanted to use it, I'd need FOUR boxes just to get the network set up optimally (VDSL box -> Home Hub 3 -> Gigabit switch + Netgear router). I'd rather run a cable instead to avoid the bad WiFi.

Why would you need the home hub? Just plug the VDSL modem into the cable router and configure it for PPPoE (username [email protected] and any password). Then plug your gigabit switch into that. Ok that's still 3 boxes but it's better than 4.

DragonQ · 4 Oct 2011 at 10:01

Phemo said:
Why would you need the home hub? Just plug the VDSL modem into the cable router and configure it for PPPoE (username [email protected] and any password). Then plug your gigabit switch into that. Ok that's still 3 boxes but it's better than 4.

The cable router has no 1 Gbps ports...although I guess even if I connected the switch to a 100 Mbps port on the router, everything connected to the switch would still communicate at 1 Gbps, right?

Sounds like an idea.

KIA · 4 Oct 2011 at 11:29

DragonQ said:
The cable router has no 1 Gbps ports...although I guess even if I connected the switch to a 100 Mbps port on the router, everything connected to the switch would still communicate at 1 Gbps, right?

Yes.

Orcvader · 5 Oct 2011 at 18:13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15180835

300mb next Spring... but starting with Ashford in Middlesex, Bradwell Abbey, Chester South, Highams Park, St Austell and York. If this works out though we may really become the fastest in Europe hopefully!

Nymins · 5 Oct 2011 at 18:28

FTTP though, so it will be a slower rollout than FTTC i'd imagine. Best way to do it would be over telegraph poles I think, rather than digging up the roads to each persons house.

Mana · 5 Oct 2011 at 18:46

right bored of 40mbit now, give me 80/20.

That will be on the 17a profile right guys? Hoping it will be in early 2012 spring!

Dandle · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:00

Orcvader said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15180835

300mb next Spring... but starting with Ashford in Middlesex, Bradwell Abbey, Chester South, Highams Park, St Austell and York. If this works out though we may really become the fastest in Europe hopefully!

Thats great news for me

. I'm waiting for it to go live now.

Nymins said:
FTTP though, so it will be a slower rollout than FTTC i'd imagine. Best way to do it would be over telegraph poles I think, rather than digging up the roads to each persons house.

They are using the poles here, theres extra trunking been fitted to the poles for the fibre with a lot of the paths being dug up to fix broken underground pipework. Also quite a few more BT manholes have appeared with the fibre connection blocks in them.

KIA · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:40

Mana said:
right bored of 40mbit now, give me 80/20.

Line stats?

muon · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:52

Orcvader said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15180835

300mb next Spring... but starting with Ashford in Middlesex, Bradwell Abbey, Chester South, Highams Park, St Austell and York. If this works out though we may really become the fastest in Europe hopefully!

Currently BT's fibre services serve around 5 million homes but take-up has been sluggish. Its super-fast service BT Infinity service has just 200,000 users so far.

I don't understand why they don't automatically migrate BT Total Broadband customers. It's the same price and I'm sure once the customers realise you are increasing their speed they'd be happy.

Mana · 5 Oct 2011 at 22:21

fluff said:
Line stats?

thats the current package u order? well option 2 at least. i think the next upgrade for FTTC is 80/20. Unless your want my actual sync speed? lazy to open up my router and edit into here. pretty good tho i download at 4.0mb/s

KIA · 5 Oct 2011 at 23:53

ghost101 said:
I don't understand why they don't automatically migrate BT Total Broadband customers. It's the same price and I'm sure once the customers realise you are increasing their speed they'd be happy.

It requires an engineer visit.

Mana said:
thats the current package u order? well option 2 at least. i think the next upgrade for FTTC is 80/20. Unless your want my actual sync speed? lazy to open up my router and edit into here. pretty good tho i download at 4.0mb/s

The speed is up to. People will only seen 80Mb/s if they're extremely close to the cab.

It doesn't look like you have full sync if your max download speed is 4MB/s.

cp88 · 6 Oct 2011 at 08:15

Shame they are only gonna offer 80

They should just put it on the highest profile, Or atleast use the full 17a profile..

Mana · 6 Oct 2011 at 08:32

fluff said:
It requires an engineer visit.

The speed is up to. People will only seen 80Mb/s if they're extremely close to the cab.

It doesn't look like you have full sync if your max download speed is 4MB/s.

powercut knocked me out for 12 hours and the profile dropped. i was on an ip profile of 38717 which gave me a download speed of 4.6mb/s. lazy to ring up bt india tho cos thats a nightmare. engineer said line can handle 76/18. cmon 17a

Kanpai · 6 Oct 2011 at 10:24

There were some engineers working at the green box at the bottom of my road so I thought I'd go and ask what they were up to as they've been working there for a few days, one of the engineers said they're doing some maintenance work as there will be upgrades soon but couldn't give me any further information.

I hope this means 80mb soon!

Mana · 6 Oct 2011 at 14:34

nayan89 said:
There were some engineers working at the green box at the bottom of my road so I thought I'd go and ask what they were up to as they've been working there for a few days, one of the engineers said they're doing some maintenance work as there will be upgrades soon but couldn't give me any further information.

I hope this means 80mb soon!

nice. hoping for first quarter of 2012!

#Chri5# · 6 Oct 2011 at 15:27

I found a spare HG612 VDSL modem in our store cupboard, so spent five minutes today "unlocking" it. Will take it home tonight and have a look at the stats it can tell me.

Locky · 6 Oct 2011 at 19:24

Mana said:
powercut knocked me out for 12 hours and the profile dropped. i was on an ip profile of 38717 which gave me a download speed of 4.6mb/s. lazy to ring up bt india tho cos thats a nightmare. engineer said line can handle 76/18. cmon 17a

When I had my connection installed my attainable rate was 52Mb (8c) dunno what it will get under 17a, line length is approx 300 meters.